We’d like to highlight a recent letter written by Jim Winkelmann to the editor of the Post-Dispatch, discussing the smoking […]
This Post-Dispatch article quotes several archaeologists who are unhappy with a high school dig that’s taking place on private property. […]
I don’t have much time to expand on this, because I have a flight to catch, but I see in […]
One of my favorite U.S senators, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, has included a couple of Missouri pork/earmark/stimulus projects in his […]
Combest lists some headlines related to the auto task force. Here’s one: Auto jobs task force finalizing recommendations And here’s […]
The St. Louis Beacon and Kansas City Star both have stories about a recent study from Stanford University’s Center for Research […]
That twittering blogger himself, Mr. Combest, linked to a number of articles about the “Fair Tax” rally in Columbia this […]
There was an excellent article in Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the heavy use of, and recent controversies over, taxpayer-funded […]
Missouri’s Department of Health is calling on everyone to wear purple today to protest senior citizen abuse (thanks to Combest […]
Here’s another piece of evidence that school choice has become, more than ever, an issue favored by people of all […]
For anyone with time to spare, I highly recommend an article by eminent surgeon and recent MacArthur “Genius” Atul Gawande […]
For the past few days, the L.A. Times has run a three–part debate about charter schools. It’s written in a […]
Please stay tuned to Show-Me Daily for updates regarding our third annual celebration of The Friedman Legacy of Freedom, which […]
I support the right of local government to enforce building codes if the citizens in those areas want them. Yesterday’s deck collapse […]
The California legislature is considering whether to extend its inter-district public school choice program. I completely agree with this statement […]
A very encouraging post on the Freakonomics blog today mentions that the Maine state legislature recently proposed a bill that […]
The National Animal Identification System (NAIS), bureaucratic brainchild of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, mandates identity registration for livestock to […]
I came across this story about charter school advocates being heard by the House Education and Labor Committee in Washington, […]
Recalls, recounts, references to songs in Oklahoma — things are a mite bit interesting in Kansas City, wouldn’t you agree, […]
It was about 54 years ago that famed economist Milton Friedman first wrote “The Role of Government in Education,” his […]
